OK, got it 64k PEs times 4MB per PE equals 256GB So that means if I set PE size to 8MB I double my max size of the LV... and so on. But then what is the max PE size? And what are the drawbacks of increasing it? Thanks again /Mikael _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html